Nuke 5 - try it out

#21

Very well said Aneks.
FFI are the satndard for high end TV spots which sell more than a feauture films, whenever i see a book about Motion Graphics i see a 3d artists,AFX artists and the final touch is always on FFI. Coincidence, i dont think so.
But i have always wonder why Apple didnt make a deal with Autodesk.Seems like Autodesk is making people get a PC. That brings me to my point where Flame used to run on Irix now it runs on Windows and Linux only. What happend with SGI machines?

#22

Regardless of whether Shake ever gets an upgrade you have to ask yourself this one very important question… Will it be Apple only?

I’d be willing to bet a return value of “True” and that just isn’t a good thing for a product trying to compete in a very small industry such as VFX. Even more so with the popular packages being cross platform.

#23

That brings me to my point where Flame used to run on Irix now it runs on Windows and Linux only. What happend with SGI machines?

flame is Linux on Intel. Discreet, who where bought out by Autodesk, always hated windows and made no secret of the fact. Their insistence on using SGI hardware and Irix long after it was overtaken by the speed of Intel on Linux caused a lot of red faces, when they finally ported and had to admit that flame on standard desktop hardware was considerably faster.

SGI went broke long ago, but their super computing area kept them afloat long after they stopped being competative in the visual workstation market. This was largely caused by the whle nVidia exodus. After they settled the law suit and started putting nVidia chips in Tezros and Fuels and the like, no one could understand why they should pay more for coloured boxes with cool names that had less 3d and open GL grunt !

#24

Wow!!! who would have thought Linux becoming a competitor of Apple probably its stability. But speed? I couldnot have imagine since SGI was running on 7200RPM long time ago.Not too long ago they were distributing SGI machines with WIndows NT inside. I almost got one.

Than what is next Sun Solaris is obsolete?Red Hat trading places with Apple OS?
Since Nuke runs on Linux as well i will not be surprised that many 3d developers start on programing on RedHat.

#25

A lot of the larger studios are Linux based for Shake, Maya, Renderman and a few other things. The only reason to use one of the two big OS’s is Adobe apps. If Photoshop ran properly on Linux only the producers would have Macs

#26

wipingAwayATearFromLaughter

true true…

#27

Unfortunately now it is also Modo, Zbrush and Mudbox that is also forcing big studios to get even more osx or windows boxes.

#28

Toxic is on it’s way for osx.

As for FFI, I don’t think people realize in the whole run of things how little of them that Autodesk sells(same with most other turnkey systems). It is only around 1-2 hundred a year, which is why they use one OS. Lustre is even less, maybe 20-30 of them a year, which is why it was developed on Windows before they bought it and then kept there because it isn’t worth the switch if it doesn’t really get enough seats to justify the port as long as it works.

#29

Where have you been? 3d developers have been making 3d apps on linux for 8-10 years. Maya, Soft3d, XSI, Houdini, Cinema4d/Bodypaint, Prman, Mental Ray, etc… all have run on linux for quite some time. There are 20 others I didn’t even list.

#30

Hey i wasnt aware of how much you knewed about software.I guess i have being listening to Jimmy Hendrix and reading motion design books. Not too much time to spend on forums.

#31

I did a bit of digging on this:
Houdini - ??? 1999 according to Linux Journal
Maya - Mar 2001 according to Linux Journal
XSI - ??? 2002 according to Linux Journal

#32

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